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View submission: COVID denialism and policy clarifications
These are all red herrings.
The issues at hand are the following:
A) whether or not the vaccine is proven to be safe and effective against COVID
B) whether or not ivermectin/hydroxychloroquine/shooting UV lasers up your ass/etc are proven to be safe and effective against COVID
Both of these decisions, in the US, are made by the FDA. The FDA decides what drugs are safe and effective, and also controls how those drugs are made and sold. All drugs not fully proven to be safe and effective are treated as unsafe until proven otherwise.
A) has been proven to be safe and effective
B) has not
None of your other examples involve going against clear FDA guidelines. The FDA doesn’t care about flat earthers and they don’t determine mask policies during a pandemic - the CDC does. The FDA is a powerful branch of the government who has the ability to stop (or even take control of) pharmaceutical manufacturing plants that are not meeting certain standards.
The only people choosing B) are doing so because of misinformation. Remember the people drinking bleach? Or taking horse pills? No one is going to an animal feed store and buying cow ivermectin to put into their stomach (or apparently four stomachs) unless they heard about it through misinformation. This misinformation is harmful and adds no value to public discourse. It’s also provably false. It doesn’t belong on Reddit or anywhere. People are literally dying from this misinformation. It doesn’t belong in our society.
The concept of censoring speech is not new and Reddit is a private platform that I believe should be held accountable for the deaths of the unvaccinated if they choose not to stop the spread of misinformation on their platform.
Comment by catchinginsomnia at 01/09/2021 at 23:09 UTC
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There was no red herring, your answer says everything I need to know.
The previous user never mention FDA guidelines, so you've invented that in to the conversation.
FDA and CDC advised against masks in March 2020. According to authoritarians like you I should have been banned for misinformation. Fuck you, people died because they didn't wear masks you piece of shit.
As for Reddit being held responsible for the posts of users, holy shit you people are fucking insane.
Comment by bahkins313 at 01/09/2021 at 23:29 UTC
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This is a world wide website, not everyone has the FDA or CDC as the governing body